Museum Place

Museum Place has been making big progress. Above, you see One Museum Place, the development’s large mixed-use retail/office/condo building at the big University/Camp Bowie/7th/Bailey intersection. Lots of facade work is underway on the building at the moment.

Across 7th, the new Flatiron-style mixed-use retail/office building has topped out and facade prep is underway. Already, the building is making a strong statement as you approach the development. You can see how the south facade of the building will angle outward slightly - this is designed to reflect views of the Modern.

The Flatiron and One Museum Place together.

The new United States Post Office is progressing, and crews have reinstalled the tornado-bent poles on the site as a piece of sculpture. The Tyvek-wrapped wall behind them will be home to a mural of a thunderstorm crossing the prairie with the famous “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” passage written below, all of which will be painted on ceramic tiles. The area in front of the Post Office will be turned into a public plaza.

Another view of the Flatiron.

The other side of the new Post Office, showing the progress being made.

The realignment of Arch Adams is well underway. On the left, you see the old alignment we’re all familiar with, which curved east and met up with Arch Adams on the other side of 7th directly. On the right, you see the new alignment, which will head more straight-on/slightly westward and meet up with 7th as a jog from the south portion of Arch Adams. Once this is complete, the old alignment of Arch Adams on the left will be demolished. Everything to the left of the new alignment will be demolished for a new mixed-use retail/apartment building, and the new alignment will be the entirety of Arch Adams through this area.

Looking down the new alignment of Arch Adams. You can see the new on-street parking on each side - parallel on the left, head-in on the right. Museum Place will add extensive street parking to this neighborhood.

Inside the forthcoming new 7-Eleven Corner Store in the development’s 3300 West 7th building.

7th Street frontage of 3300 West 7th. The sidewalks will be very wide. Head-in parking on the left.

The former J & J’s Hideaway awaits demolition, to be replaced by a mixed-use retail/apartment building.

The old Post Office, which will be demolished when the new Post Office opens and will be replaced by a mixed-use retail/apartment building.

Details of 3300 West 7th.

Overview of 3300 West 7th. The building will be ground-floor retail with condos above. The primary retail tenant will be a new gas pump-less, more upscale 7-Eleven Corner Store, a new type of store the company is testing.

The big curb and slightly sinking roadway here mark the location of what will become the Museum Place central public plaza. This will be infilled with rougher paving stones/brick and made flush with the sidewalks, so that it can serve as a public space when closed for events. The sidewalks around it will also flare out and become a large public plaza.

Another view of the future plaza site.

Site prep underway for the development’s Aloft Hotel, which will also feature ground-level retail.

The old 7-Eleven, which will be demolished and replaced by a mixed-use retail/apartment building.

More of the development’s new street parking. This is diagonal head-in along 7th. 7th Street through the development is being narrowed from four lanes to two with on-street parking.

Progress on the 7th Street facade of One Museum Place.

One Museum Place storefronts.

One Museum Place and the Flatiron together.

The Flatiron.

One Museum Place facade and storefronts.

One Museum Place facade work.

For more information, check out the development’s two web sites: museumplace.com for an overview of the whole project, and museumplaceliving.com for information on the condos in One Museum Place and 3300 West 7th.